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Ni'rn] TATES I'VILLIAM H. NORTHALL, OF EVANSVILLE, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OFTWO- THIRDS TO J. H. POLSDORFER, H. B. POLSDORFER, F. O. POLSDORFER, ANDIV. H. POLSDORFER, OF SAME PLACE. I

BOTTLE-CAP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 534,659, dated February26, 1895.

Application filed May 25,1894. Serial No. 512,452. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom itrmty concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. NORTHALL, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city of Evansville, county of Vanderburg, and State ofIndiana, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inBottle-Caps, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of a cap designed to fit over the top of a bottleand hold the corkin place. It is particularly adapted for use inconnection with bottles containing aerated liquids, or liquids chargedwith gas,where there is a pressure from the inside tending to force thecork from the bottle, and can-be used with either a full sized cork inthe neck of the bottle or with a thin cork resting partly on the top ofthe bottle and known in this art as a seal.

The object of my invention is to provide a bottle cap which will be atonce economical in construction and efficient in service, and which,while being easily applied, may be removed without the useofanyotherinstrument than the ordinary penknife.

The best embodiment of my invention at present known to me is that shownin the drawings, in which Figure 1 represents my improved cap inposition on vthe neck of a bottle. Fig. 2 represents the cap with thetying-cord removed. Fig. 3 represents that portion of the cap shown inFig. 2, with thelegs spread out into a plane parallel to the top of thecap for convenience of illustration. Fig. trepresents a modified forniof the cap in position upon a bottle, and Fig. 5 represents the sameconstructionwith the legs spread out. for convenience in illustration.

Similar letters of reference refer to similar parts in each figure.

The cap is composed of a capping portion which fits over the top of abottle and a tyingcord which serves to hold the same in place. Thecapping portion, which can be stamped out of a single piece of metal,consists of a plate or (shown in the drawings as somewhat dished orrecessed at 5) having a plurality of legs a which are bent down intosuch position that the capping portion will closely fit over the top ofthe bottle. The legs extend some distance down the sides of the head 11of the bottle and their lower extremities are held tightly against thehead and under a shoulder 6, by the tying-cord, f. This tying-cord,which is a piece of twine or ribbon or other band of flexible andcompressible material,

makes somewhat more than one full turn around the bottle neck, lyingover the legs somewhat above their lower ends. These ends of the legsare bent back upon the cord, as shown at g, and tightly claspit. Sincethe tying cord makes more than one complete oncircling of the neck, thenecessity of a knot is obviated, as the ends of the legs, being bentback upon the cord, become embedded therein and securely hold it andprevent it from slipping.

The shoulder e, referred to, may be the ordinary shoulder at the base ofthe head as shown in Fig. 1,01 it may be made by agroove in the head asshown in Fig. 4. The construction shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 is designedfor use in connection with a bottle having the former shoulder. In thisconstruction I prefer to make the feet h of the legs flaring andbifurcated, as shown. Figs. 4 and 5 represent a construction adapted tobe used with the latter shoulder. Although I have shown in the drawingsthe construction in Fig. 1 as used in connection with afull sized cork,and that in Fig. 4 as used with a seal, it is evident that eitherconstruction may be used with either form of cork.

To distinguish this application from another which 1 have made on thesame subject matter, I designate this one Case B.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-- The combination with a bottle-neck havinga shoulderthereon, of a bottle cap consisting of a-plate having aplurality of legs projecting therefrom, and a removable, flexible,compressible cord which encircles said neck beneath said shoulder andover said legs and holds the legs against said shoulder, said cordmaking more than one complete encircling of the neck and passing twiceacross one or more of said legs, the extremity of the legs beneath saidcord being bent back upon the cord and compressing it to an extentsufficient to prevent it from slipping, all constructed and arrangedsubstantially as described, for the pn rpose specified.

WVILLIAM H. NORTHALL. Vitnesses:

WILLIAM H. MILLS, A. J. MoCUToHAN.

